TEA Priorities
The Texas Education Agency has outlined specific strategic priorities to guide and focus our work with students across the state of Texas.
Recruit, support and retain teachers and principals
- Strategic Priority Guide - Recruit, Support and Retain Teachers and Principals
- The Effect of Teacher Coaching on Instruction and Achievement: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence
- Leadership Coaching for School Improvement - American Institute for Research
- Coaching the Veteran Teacher - Edutopia
- When Coaching Teachers Has Curiosity As It's Primary Goal - MindShift
- Churn: The High Cost of Principal Turnover - New Teacher Center
Building a Foundation of Reading and Math
- Strategic Priority Guide - Build a Foundation of Reading and Math
- 9 Strategies for Motivating Students in Mathematics - Edutopia
- SMART Goals Improve Data-Driven Decision Making in Blended
- The Lasting Payoff of Early Ed - Harvard
- Kernels of Practice for Social Emotional Learning: Low-Cost, Low-Burden
- How are Middle School Climate and Academic Performance Related Across Schools and Time?
Connect High School to Career and College
- Strategic Priority Guide - Connect High School to Career and College
- Preventing Dropout in Secondary Schools - IES Practice Guide - September, 2017
- Report: Advancing Course Offerings and Completion in Science Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) in Texas Public High Schools - October, 2017
- Study Finds Academic Coaching Boosts Graduation Rates - Standford
- TEA Pathways Initiatives
- Advanced Placement
- International Baccalaureate
Improving Low-Performing Schools
- Strategic Priority Guide - Improving Low Performing Schools
- Research: How the Best School Leaders Create Enduring Change
- Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making (ies.ed.gov)
- Using Student Achievement Data to Support Decision Making (upenn.edu)
- Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence